Who is Hermann Escarra?

Member of the Inter-American Bar Association

Professor of Constitutional and International Law at national and overseas Universities. Honorary and Emeritus of Constitutional Law Professor, Recipient of honoris causae Doctorate from several Universities. He is a Lawyer and Juris Doctor. Escarrá graduated with honors and received the Law School Award, the Oscar García Uslar History Essay Award and the Venezuelan Bolivarian Society National Essay Award on the very same year of his Graduation (1977). He did Post-Graduate studies at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (Central University of Venezuela), the Simon Bolivar University, the Andres Bello Catholic University; at the Venezuelan High National Defense School; at the International Institute of Public Administration, Spain. Escarrá has been granted five University Diplomas in: Political Economy, International Politics, Democracy and Governance, International Law, Constitution and Democracy, by the International Center for Government Studies (CIEG). C. S. in Constitutional Warranty and Comparative Constitutional Law.

Escarrá was the first Director of the Justice Ministry’s Comparative Public Law Institute. He served as Chairman of the Department of Public Law at the Andres Bello Catholic University (UCAB), held the Public and Constitutional Law Chair; he was member of the Law Faculty Council (elected by his peers, later in representation of the University President), Member of the University Council at the same university (elected by his peers). He holds the UCAB’s Medal of Honor for Academic Merit. UCAB. He is Co-Founder and Chairman of the Human Rights International Law Chair at the Andres Bello Catholic University; established the Public Ethics Chair, later the Public Service Deontology Chair at the National Public Administration School. Escarrá served as professor in the Judiciary School, holds the Medal of Honor for Academic Merit, has been professor, lecturer and faculty and teaching partner at the War School, in the Army Staff School courses, at the Venezuelan High National Defense School (lAEDEN), on Constitutional Law and Theory of the Democratic State. He was Dean of Doctoral Studies in Constitutional Law at the Santa María University and presided over the Chair of Honor of that University; and was member of its University Council in representation of the Faculty. He was Teaching and Research Partner at the Latin American Parliament’s Latin American and Caribbean University. Dr. Escarrá presided over the Development Council of the Caracas Illustrious Santa Rosa Catholic University. He was Professor of Post-Doctoral Studies at the Venezuelan Military University, and Professor at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV).

He has a published work consisting of 52 titles and three award-winning books. Among his most recent works are “The Civil Republic”; “The Venezuelan Bolivarian Republic, Democratic Governance and Constitution” and “Republican Stability and Sentences of the State” – a contribution to constitutional interpretation. At the young age of 20, he received the Oscar García Uslar History Essay Award for the essay “ A Profile Remains In History." His work “Bolivar, the Panama Congress and the Latin American Nationalism” was also recognized. He also published "Simon Bolivar: Defense of Peace and the New International Order”; "The Latin American Collective Security and the raight to Peace”, among others. There are four volumes awaiting publication by the Judicial Library Publishing House on “The Constituent Commissions and the Redaction of The 1999 Constitution”, a political essay titled “Vindicta Against Intolerance”, as well as “Sovereignty and No Intervention. Our State Doctrine”; also from the same Publishing House. The political essay “Revolution, Democracy and Peace” is currently under publication (referring to the changes within liberty that have taken place in the hemisphere, related to the people’s originary constituent power).

Mr. Escarrá was co-redactor of the 1999 Venezuelan Constitution; co-redactor of the Fundamental Law of Protection of the Constitutional Rights and Warranties, Co-redactor of the Inter-American Democratic Chart. He co-Authored with the President of the Republic of the Venezuelan Reservation during the meeting of Heads of Government and State in Quebec on the Democratic Clause and Participatory Democracy, which originated the Inter-American Democratic Chart (San José de Costa Rica - Lima). He redacted the Project for the Reforms Protocol to the Organization of American States (OAS) Chart, called: For Democratic Peace and Security. (Dealing with the issue of non interference, no intervention and the Principle of Equality among States). He was the Venezuelan coordinator for the regulatory proposals on the Inter-American Democratic Chart.

He is a Numbered Individual of the Inter American Academy of lnternational Law;  Numbered Individual of the lnternational Academy of Comparative Law, was co-founder of the Venezuelan Association of Constitutional Law and its First Secretary. He is member of the Hispanic Culture Institute and of the Venezuelan Writers Association. He was President of the Venezuelan Parliamentary Law Association. While being Senator of the Republic, Escarrá was was member of the  Venezuelan-American Parlamentary Friendship and Cooperation Commission (1999).

He was Legal Advisor to the Presidency of the Republic (1982). He has been legal Consultant for the Foreign Relations Ministry and for the  National Council for Security and Defense. He was coordinator of the Superior Consulting Council of the Ministry of Justice. He was elected Senator of the Republic and was member of the Permanent Commissions of Foreign and Economy Policy for that High Chamber, and presided the Bipartisan Parliamentary Commission on the Judiciary. He was also Constituent with national jurisdiction in 1999, was member of the Presidential Constituent Council and the Presidential Constitutional Council. During the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) he presided the Constitutional Commission and was member of eleven commissions of the ANC. He was representative for Venezuela before the specialized bodies on Human Rights matters of the United Nations (UN) and the Organisation of American States (OAS).

He is President of the Institute of International Constitutional Law and Member of the International Center for Government Studies Academic Council (CIEG).

 

He is the bearer of 142 national and 21 international decorations. He holds (among the only five Venezuelan Scholars who bear it) the Presidential Medal of Honor for Academic Achievement in Public Law Antonio Moles Caubet (1997).

He is currently dedicated exclusively to his private, professional and academic life.

(Caracas, 2017)